David Allen's Office/Workspace

Submitted by shrop on Mon, 01/26/2009 - 8:10am

Check out this video of David Allen talking about his office/workspace:

http://lifehacker.com/5138412/take-a-tour-of-david-allens-office

One thing that I notice is how organized his office is (to be expected) and how he relies on paper a pen quite a bit. I have tried to eliminate paper completely. I am relying on electronic tools - iPhone, Evernote, etc. for collections, processing and archiving of information. It does make me thing that I should consider where do I include paper/pen effectively in my work flow.

Thoughts?

Comments

3 comments posted

I think this is one of the

I think this is one of the targets of many office owners, reducing the use of paper will be mandatory in the future. Still I can't be that organized in my office, I am still "addicted" to copy paper, as well as my clients.

Posted by gall (not verified) on Fri, 06/19/2009 - 11:41am

The problem with his office

The problem with his office is all of the paper. I like keeping things in EverNote- my iPhone is close by, the stack of paper probably not.

Posted by mmhamric (not verified) on Mon, 01/26/2009 - 2:45pm

I totally agree. I despise

I totally agree. I despise paper because even if it gets filed, it is not possible to search it and pull it up from any location.

Evernote rules for this kind of thing!

Posted by shrop on Mon, 02/02/2009 - 6:37pm